Duerst
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Duerst is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Dürst.
- DEGermany≈1 in 32Kas Durst(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 55Kas Durst
- FIFinland≈1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Duerst itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 347 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
5,995 named Durst, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Durst in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from German Dürst.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duerst counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,995as Durst | 1 in 55K | 6K | Durst | 347 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Durst | 107 |
| CH Switzerland | #780 | 934as Dürst | 1 in 9K | 934 | Durst | 28 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Durst | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Durst | 21 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Durst | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Duerst | 2 |
5,995 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johann Ulrich Duerstb. 1876DEGerman university teacher (1876-1950)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 524 | #41,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 522 | #44,341 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 473 | #43,058 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Duerst mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Dürst. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Duerst have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Durst, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Duerst?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,995 people named Durst in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Duerst compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Duerst is the 780th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/duerstThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Duerst” — the 780th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.